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Hash Animation:Master Image Contest: Prize for 1th place

It took a little but yesterday I received a package with my win of the Hash Animation:Master Image Contest (Topic: Insects). I want to thank everybody involved for this very nice looking and very well crafted medal. Additional to that I received a jacket of Siggraph 2000, which was the first year (version 8) I've got involved with Hash Animation:Master. The medal has been created using powder 3d printing and I find it astonishing well made and ...

Light holder for Inline skating at night (Revised)

My first light holder design for skating at night already was in use for about 2 seasons and because of the flexible PLA, some smaller accidents and just the age of it, it was a little broken at the end. Because of that I created a revised version of it in A:M, brought it over to Makerware and printed a new one out – this time with normal PLA. Till now it works perfectly. These are the images starting with the design till the final products ...

My first App in the Windows Store: WingMan – Fight For Earth

The company I work for has of course already published several apps to the App stores, but till now we did not publish one for the Windows Store and all of them for customers, not for the agency or even PW3d. But that changes now: WingMan – Fight for Earth is available in the Windows Store published by PW3d now.. Everybody how has got an Windows 10 PC, a Windows 10 Tablet (like the Surface or many others) or a Windows 10 (mobile) Smartphone ...

Minion-Mariage... or: What you should put on a cake (Part 1)

A co-worker of mine will marry soon (she already is before law but not at the church yet... deside for yourself if she already is or not ;) ) and I've have create a small minion couple and want to print it for her. The first steps of the long road ahead are done and those can be seen here These characters are created in A:M and they will be printed in 3d on my Makerbot Replicator 2 or 2x (which can be quite challenging , if you ask me...) ...

Animation:Master Insect Contest

Today the winners of the Hash Animation:Master Contest "Insect" 2015 were announced. This has happend in a very interesting video in a close to the Academy Awards-like way. I could receive the 1th place in the online voting but many other entries are more than worthy too so have a look at the great video below to see what I am talking about here. There are interviews with the winners, additional images, a fun to watch lottery draw and much ...

Animation:Master Interchange: How to integreation A:M in your workflow

For a long time it has been a troublesome thing to integrate A:M in your existing 3d workflow / pipeline. That has changed with the new genious Blender plugin. With this plugin you can export MDL files from Blender. It can not only export geometry (which was always the hardest thing to do) but it can export UV informations and even Bone-Information. It is planned to add import of A:M's action files into Blender too. That will enable whole new ...